Submissions

Submissions

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Submission Preparation Checklist

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.
  • The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
  • The submission file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, RTF, or WordPerfect document file format.
  • Full articles are approximately 500-1,000 words, and smaller highlights are around 250-500 words.
  • Please include the title suggestions for the article in the manuscript, along with the full names, roles/titles, and departments of all contributors as they will appear in the magazine. Title suggestions may be revised during our editing process.
  • The text is single-spaced; uses a 12-point font; employs italics, rather than underlining (except with URL addresses); and requests for preferred placements of all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points.
  • Figures are submitted with the manuscript as separate files. Acceptable file formats are .tif (preferred), .jpeg, and .png. Files should be at least 300 dpi and no larger than 600 dpi.
  • Where available, URLs and DOIs for the references have been provided.
  • The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines.

Author Guidelines

Copyright

Authors retain copyright to their publications. By submitting, authors agree to a Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial 4.0 International license, as of the Spring 2021 issue. SOURCE issues and contributed articles are made available under a Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial 4.0 International license, which allows our readers to freely distribute and copy the magazine for noncommercial purposes without permission from the Smathers Libraries or article authors. SOURCE relies on the fair use provision of U.S. Copyright Law to incorporate photographs and other images where copyright is not held by the University of Florida.

Length:

Full articles are approximately 500-1,000 words. Please let us know if more space is needed, or if this is a smaller highlight around 250-500 words.

Manuscript & Image Formatting Instructions:

  • Manuscripts should be submitted in Microsoft Word (preferred), RTF, or WordPerfect document file format. 
  • If your manuscript includes references, please include URLs and DOIs as appropriate.
  • For optimal quality, figures should be submitted with the manuscript as separate files, not embedded within the manuscript.
  • Please also include a separate document with figure captions and credits as appropriate. Files should be named correspondingly with the lead author's name (example: Johnston_Figure1). If images were not submitted through Florida OJ, please let us know in this supplemental document where to locate them (e.g., in the TEAMS channel, online links, etc.).
  • Acceptable file formats are TIFF (preferred), JPEG, and PNG. Files should be at least 300 dpi and no larger than 600 dpi. 
  • If the quantity or file size of your images is a concern, images (only) can be uploaded to our SOURCE Teams Channel (which you will be added to for this Issue) under SOURCE Contributors in the folder “ADD YOUR IMAGES HERE” under Files.
  • We ask that all other files, including your article and other supplemental Word documents, be submitted through Florida OJ and not the SOURCE Teams channel to make it easier to post your article correctly in Florida OJ.

Questions? Contact the SOURCE Editorial Collective at SOURCE@uflib.ufl.edu.

Copyright Notice

This agreement takes effect upon acceptance of the Submission for publication in SOURCE.

  • I hereby grant to the University of Florida (“the University”) the non-exclusive right to retain, reproduce and distribute the Submission in whole or in part, in print and electronic format and in any medium. This agreement does not represent a transfer of copyright to the University.
  • The University may make and keep multiple copies of the work for purposes of security, backup, preservation and access; and may migrate the work to any medium or format for the purpose of preservation and access.
  • I represent and warrant to the University that the work is my original work and that I have the authority as sole author or I have the authority on behalf of my co-authors to grant the rights contained in this agreement. I also represent that the work does not, to the best of my knowledge, infringe or violate any rights of others.
  • I further represent and warrant that I have obtained all necessary rights to permit the University to reproduce and distribute the work, including any third-party material. Alternatively, I represent that my use of any third-party material is allowed because the material is not in copyright or I have performed a fair use analysis and reasonably believe my use is permitted. Any content owned by a third party is clearly identified and acknowledged within the work.
  • I grant these same rights to SOURCE. Additionally, I grant the right to both the University and SOURCE to enter into agreements with third-party entities and the rights necessary to host, print, index and abstract the Submission.

Open Access and Self-Archiving

SOURCE follows an open-access publishing model, meaning that all articles will be publicly accessible on the Internet immediately upon publication. I understand that I may share the submitted manuscript (preprint) of the Submission on the Internet at any point before or after publication, with a citation and link to the final version of record to be added as soon as the issue is available. I may disseminate the final peer-reviewed version at any point after publication.

Creative Commons License

SOURCE applies a Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial 4.0 International license to encourage sharing and reuse of content and to maximize the impact of published research. By publishing in SOURCE, I agree that the terms of this license will be applied to the Submission. Smathers Libraries (copyright@uflib.ufl.edu) may be able to offer additional information.

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